"Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.”
“The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.”
“I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”

Source : Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”
“I think fashion is the only thing I'm fully suited to do because I am super impatient, which I think is a good thing for fashion. I could never work on something for two years. I would do 20 things and finish none of them. I always admire people who have that ability to sustain something for that long a period.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brotherâ€™s cousinâ€™s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesnâ€™t matter that she didnâ€™t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.”
“For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage.”

Source : "Crush of the Week: Kelly Blatz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 9, 2010.
“The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.”

Source : Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.”

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